Handle



March 5, 1946. s, w PARSONS 2,396,194

HANDLE Filed Feb. l5, 1944 Patented Mar. 5, 1946 HANDLE Stuart W.Parsons, New Britain, Conn., assignor to The Stanley Works, New.Britain, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application February 15,1944, Serial o. 522,409

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a handle suitable for use as a drawer`pull, door pull, or the like.

The aim of the invention is to provide a handle of this sort which maybe easily secured in position by means of wood screws or the like, whichis neat and pleasing in appearance, which is simple and rigid inconstruction, which is economical in manufacture, and which, after it issecured in place, will not readily work loose or come apart.

In accordance with the present invention, provide a bowed handle memberwhich may be secured in place by screws passed from the front of thehandle member through the same and into the panel or other member towhich it is to be secured; and a cover for enclosing the handle memberand concealing the securing screws from View, the handle member and thecover being so constructed and arranged that the cover may be veryquickly and readily pressed into position with a wiping action and inwhich position it is securely held against displacement.

Other objects will be in part obvious, and in part pointed out more indetail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction,combination 'of elements and arrangement of parts which will beexemplied in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of theapplication of which will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein is shown, for illustrativepurposes, one embodiment which the present invention may take:

Figure 1 is a front view of the handle applied to a panel or the like;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View taken longitudinally and centrallythrough the handle;

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view through one end of the handle, thisview being taken substantially on line 4 4 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a cross sectional View taken through the central portion ofthe handle, this view being taken substantially on line 5-5 of Fig. 3;and

Fig. 6 is-a perspective view of the handle as seen from the rear, a'portion of the bowed handle member beingbroken away for the purpose ofillustration.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the handle member, designatedgenerally by the letter A, comprises a rigid strip of metal having abowed or flattened U-shaped hand gripping portion I9 terminating inlaterally extending tongues Il. The extreme ends of these tongues areturned forand comprises a curved, channel-shaped piece` of thin sheetmetal which has some resiliency. The cover has a central or forward wall20 which is longitudinally curved throughout its length and which isslightly longer than the over-all length of the handle member ID. Thecover has flanges 2| extending rearwardly from the upper and lower edgesof the central wall and these straddle the handle member throughout itslength. The rear edges of these anges conform to the horizontal crosssectional conguration of the handle member, as will be seen most clearlyfrom Figs. 3 to 6, so that the cover will t over the handle member andconceal the same from the front, above and below. More particularly, itwill be seen that the rear edges of these flanges are curved at theircentral portions, as at 22, correspondingly to the curvature of thebowed portion I0 of the handle member, and the edges, to either end ofthe curved portions 22, are straight, as at 23. These rear edges are ushwith the rear face of the handle member throughout substantially thelength thereof. The cover has, at the opposite ends of its forward wallI3, inturned integral lugs 24 which, as shown in Fig. 3, are adapted totake in behind the lips or outer ends I2 of the tongues whereby thecover is secured in place to the handle member.

With the arrangement described, the handle may be very quickly andreadily secured in place. To do this, it is merely necessary to securethe handle member I0 (before assembling the cover thereon) to the draweror panel P by inserting the screws from the front through the aperturesi3 and then turning the screws home in the panel. The cover may then bepressed into place by positioning it over the handle member with one ofthe lugs 24 engaging behind one of the lips I2 and the rear face of theother lug engaging the end edge of the other lip I2, and then applyingpressure to successive portions of the cover so as to exert componentsof force towards the drawer and towards the last mentioned lug. Moreparticularly, assuming that during the asembly of the cover on thehandle member, the left hand lug 28 (referring to Fig. 3) is firstengaged behind the lip, the person applying the cover may by means ofhis thumb positioned, at a press the` cover towards the handle memberand towards the right hand end of the handle member, thereby bringingthe anges of the cover into Contact with the edges of the handle memberandsthen sliding his thumb in the direction of the arrow b withoutrelieving the pressure. rIhis operation will cause the cover member toelongate slightly, with the result that the right hand lug will snap inbehind the right hand lip. Due to the engagement of the lugsbehind thelips, the cover member is securely held in position and there is nopossibility of it becoming displaced under ordinary usage.

It is further observed that my improved construction is relativelysimple as it comprises but two parts each of which may be very cheaplyand easily manufactured and the assembly of which may be affected withfacility. The assembled handle presents a very pleasing appearance,particularly so as the handle member Aand the securing screws areconcealed from View' by theA cover.

As many" changes could be made in the above construction and manyapparently widely difierent embodiments of this invention could be madewithout departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all mattercontained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawingshall be interpreted as illustrative and not in alimiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the followingclaim is intended to cover all of the generic and specic features of theinvention herein described and all statements of the scope of theinvention which, as a matter of language, might be said to falltherebetween.

I claim as my invention:

A handle of the character described comprisng'a rigid handle memberformed of a strip or metal and provided with a central bowed grippingportion and outwardly extending tongues at the ends of said grippingportion, said tongues having openings for accommodating attaching screwsand the outer ends of said tongues being turned forwardly soas toprovide lips, and a channelshaped cover formed of resilient sheet metaland having a curved forward wall extending from one end` of said handlemember to the other and anges projecting rearwardly from said forwardwall and straddling said handle member, the rear edges of said Iiangesconforming in shape t0 the horizontal sectional coniiguration of saidhandle member, said forwardV wall of said cover having at its oppositeends preformed inwardly extending lugs engaged behind said lips, saidcover being resilient in th-e direction of its length whereby it may besnapped into position on said handle member.

STUART W. PARSONS.

